OUR TRAIN SERVICES.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 64, 12 September 1901, Page 5

OUR TRAIN SERVICES.

« THE IMPROVEMENTS ON THE WEST COAST LINE. Under the new arrangements made by tliß Government Railway Department and the Mauuwatu Railway Company, the southward express train journey— New Plymouth to Wellington— will be shortened by an hour and five minutes. Tho train will stop only at the principal stations between Pabnerston and Wellington, and will roach tho Thorndon Station af the Manawatu Company at 8.15 o'clock each night, instead of at 9.20 o'clock on Monday, Tueiday, Thursday, and Friday nights, as at present. Another train is to leave Palmerston at 4.50 p.m. each day and will stop at all stations, reaching Thorndon at 10.30 p.m. There is to be no alteration in the time of departure of the express train now leaving Welling, ton for New Plymouth at 7.26 a.m., as most of those travelling by it do not require to be in New Plymouth until the time of departure of the steamer for the Manukau. „ A dining car is to be attached to the express ■ trains between New Plymouth and Palmerston. As the Manawatu Company will continue to run a dining car on its own line, through passengers between Wellington and New Plymouth will be able to obtain meals at regular intervals without leaving the train.- The new. time-table and the dining-car service will come into operation on Ist November.